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  • Bildad: Job Should Repent

    And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
  • Bildad: Job Should Repent

    Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
  • How long wilt thou speak these things? and the words of thy mouth be a strong wind?
  • “How long will you speak these things,
    And the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
  • Doth God pervert judgment, and the Almighty pervert justice?
  • Does God subvert judgment?
    Or does the Almighty pervert justice?
  • If thy children have sinned against him, he hath also given them over into the hand of their transgression.
  • If your sons have sinned against Him,
    He has cast them away [a]for their transgression.
  • If thou seek earnestly unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,
  • If you would earnestly seek God
    And make your supplication to the Almighty,
  • If thou be pure and upright, surely now he will awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous;
  • If you were pure and upright,
    Surely now He would [b]awake for you,
    And prosper your rightful dwelling place.
  • And though thy beginning was small, yet thine end shall be very great.
  • Though your beginning was small,
    Yet your latter end would increase abundantly.
  • For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and attend to the researches of their fathers;
  • “For inquire, please, of the former age,
    And consider the things discovered by their fathers;
  • For we are [but] of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow.
  • For we were born yesterday, and know [c]nothing,
    Because our days on earth are a shadow.
  • Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
  • Will they not teach you and tell you,
    And utter words from their heart?
  • Doth the papyrus shoot up without mire? doth the reed-grass grow without water?
  • “Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh?
    Can the reeds flourish without water?
  • Whilst it is yet in its greenness [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] grass.
  • While it is yet green and not cut down,
    It withers before any other plant.
  • So are the paths of all that forget God; and the profane man's hope shall perish,
  • So are the paths of all who forget God;
    And the hope of the hypocrite shall perish,
  • Whose confidence shall be cut off, and his reliance is a spider's web.
  • Whose confidence shall be cut off,
    And whose trust is [d]a spider’s web.
  • He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand; he shall lay hold on it, but it shall not endure.
  • He leans on his house, but it does not stand.
    He holds it fast, but it does not endure.
  • He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden;
  • He grows green in the sun,
    And his branches spread out in his garden.
  • His roots are entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place of stones.
  • His roots wrap around the rock heap,
    And look for a place in the stones.
  • If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him: I have not seen thee!
  • If he is destroyed from his place,
    Then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’
  • Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the dust shall others grow.
  • “Behold, this is the joy of His way,
    And out of the earth others will grow.
  • Behold, God will not cast off a perfect man, neither will he take evil-doers by the hand.
  • Behold, God will not [e]cast away the blameless,
    Nor will He uphold the evildoers.
  • Whilst he would fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with shouting,
  • He will yet fill your mouth with laughing,
    And your lips with [f]rejoicing.
  • They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked be no more.
  • Those who hate you will be clothed with shame,
    And the dwelling place of the wicked [g]will come to nothing.”

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